UK Cabinet chooses Open Document Format as its format of choice

The UK Cabinet Office is the latest government to officially adopt the Open Document Format as its office format of choice. The document file format is expected to be used across all government bodies for sharing or collaborating on government documents.

The Open Document Format offers superior interoperability compared to legacy proprietary formats, and best serves the needs of users:

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ODF-XSLT

The ODF-XSLT Document Generator is a library written in PHP 5 that brings the full power of XSLT to OpenDocument files. It enables you to use ODF files as if they were plain XSLT templates. It also includes a few extra parsing options that allow you to edit the XSLT parts of these ODF from within your favourite office suite. ODF-XSLT is released as Free Software (GPLv3).